--- title: "Chilcombe – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Chilcombe, United Kingdom: Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area about 4…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chilcombe" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chilcombe.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Painted_oak_mortuary_chest_for_Kings_Cynegils_and_%C3%86thelwulf_%28side_1%29.jpg/1920px-Painted_oak_mortuary_chest_for_Kings_Cynegils_and_%C3%86thelwulf_%28side_1%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Hamlet in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Chilcombe Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bridport and 10 miles (16 km) west of the county town, Dorchester. ![Chilcombe](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Painted_oak_mortuary_chest_for_Kings_Cynegils_and_%C3%86thelwulf_%28side_1%29.jpg/1920px-Painted_oak_mortuary_chest_for_Kings_Cynegils_and_%C3%86thelwulf_%28side_1%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Chilcombe · BabelStone The place Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bridport and 10 miles (16 km) west of the county town, Dorchester. It comprises a church, an 18th-century farmhouse with farm buildings, and a couple of cottages. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 10. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilcombe), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Chilcombe 2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Eggardon Hill Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset, England. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of Bridport. 3.9 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggardon_Hill) 2. Parish Church of Holy Trinity Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Swyre, Dorset, England. The oldest part of the church has been dated to the early 15th century, with a partial rebuild and additions later made in the 19th century. 2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Swyre, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Swyre) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Chilcombe **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 74 km · Cardiff (CWL), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 176 km\ - Bristol → Chilcombe 82 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-chilcombe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Chilcombe) - Cardiff → Chilcombe 38 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-chilcombe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Chilcombe) - London → Chilcombe 198 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £21–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-chilcombe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Chilcombe) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Chilcombe) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Chilcombe Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chilcombe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 96 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 149 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 553 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 565 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 595 km If you know how people move in Chilcombe – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cchilcombe&title=Chilcombe&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fchilcombe), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Chilcombe - [Puncknowle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puncknowle) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.5 km - [Litton Cheney](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/litton-cheney) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.4 km - [Shipton Gorge](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shipton-gorge) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.4 km - [Askerswell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/askerswell) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 1.7 km - [Swyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/swyre) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.8 km - [Uploders](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/uploders) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.8 km [The place page for Chilcombe](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/chilcombe) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chilcombe, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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